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Gender and number morphology in Ethio-Eritrean semitic languages
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021 The vowel -ā can be identified as a marker of nominal and verbal plurality in different Semitic and Afroasiatic languages. The vowels -ā (feminine plural) and -ū (masculine plural) which are used for both internal and external plurals are, according to ...
Tesfay Tewolde Johannes
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Can mtDNA contribute to disentangle the Afro-Asiatic querelle?
Journal of Biological Research, 2012 -
L. Castri +11 more
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The Semitic root evolution (cultural and historical aspect)
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021 The paper considers the long-ago perceived, but inadequately studied phenomenon of the Semitic root triconsonantism. Some examples of the paradigm realization from the Biblical Hebrew, where the adducing of the third consonant to a 2C-root (biconsonantal)
A.E. Zeldin
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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A sketch of Ongota a dying language of southwest Ethiopia
Studies in African Linguistics, 2000 The article provides a grammatical sketch of Ongota, a language on the brink of extinction (actively used by eight out of an ethnic group of nearly one hundred) spoken in the South Omo Zone of Southwestern Ethiopia.
Graziano Savà, Mauro Tosco
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Folia OrientaliaMore than 30 years ago Andrzej Zaborski (1983; 1987 {1983}) collected and analyzed all Cushitic and Omotic numerals, which were described in his time, and tried to analyze their internal structure.
Václav Blažek
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Folia Orientalia, 2021 In the present contribution the Beja botanical terminology is analyzed from the point of view of semantic motivation. The study is limited only to the unborrowed part of the botanical lexicon (with some exceptions), together 76 terms. First 51 terms are
Václav Blažek
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Quotative constructions and prosody in some Afroasiatic languages: Towards a typology [PDF]
, 2015 International audienceThis chapter investigates, in a crosslinguistic perspective, the relationship between prosodic contours and direct and indirect reported speech (i.e.
Malibert, Il-Il, Vanhove, Martine
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Time to Proficiency in Young English Learners and Factors That Affect Progress
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 695-729, June 2025.Abstract We investigated the time it takes 54,146 English learners (ELs) to attain English proficiency as they progressed from age 5 to 11 on average (Kindergarten through fifth grade in the United States). We also examine to what extent the time‐to‐proficiency estimate is affected by child‐internal and child‐external factors, including primary ...
Xiaowan Zhang, Paula Winke
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Convergence and secondary entropy in a macrodiachronic perspective
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021 The theory of secondary convergence and entropy has had interesting results in the comparative linguistics of Semitic languages, as in the studies of Lutz Edzard who analyzed the secondary convergence between various Semitic languages once they were ...
Cyril Aslanov
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